Biotech Lobbyists Pressure LA City Council

"Three days before Los Angeles lawmakers voted on a proposal to ban genetically modified crops, the world's largest biotechnology trade group hired three top City Hall lobbyists to stop it.

"The matter had sailed through a meeting weeks before with only one City Council member expressing doubt.

"But when a council committee sat down to vote again this month, three of the five members came out strongly against it ..." Read the full story